Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
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Typically best enjoyed from 10 to 35 years after the vintage release, showing incredible longevity and evolving beautifully over decades.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted duck with a fruit-based glaze, and aged hard cheeses like Comté or Gruyère.
✨ wine.spec_sheet
Markus Molitor, often referred to as a visionary of the Mosel, is celebrated for his uncompromising dedication to quality and his precise expression of terroir. The Graacher Himmelreich vineyard is renowned for its steep slopes and deep, weathered blue Devonian slate soils, which impart a distinct, intense minerality to the wines. In Molitor's unique system, the Green Capsule indicates a 'feinherb' or off-dry style, offering a harmonious tension between delicate sweetness and vibrant acidity. The '3-Star' designation is the estate's highest quality tier for Auslese, representing an incredibly rigorous selection of the finest grapes. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional, large neutral oak casks (Fuder), this Riesling showcases a brilliant complexity, blending rich stone fruit flavors with smoky slate notes and a long, saline finish.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Taking over his family's estate in 1984 at just twenty years old, Markus Molitor set out to restore the Mosel region's historic prestige through uncompromising quality and traditional craftsmanship. Based at the historic Haus Klosterberg in Bernkastel-Kues, the winery meticulously farms steep, slate-rich vineyards across the Mosel and Saar, utilizing extremely late hand-harvesting and spontaneous fermentation in neutral oak Fuder casks. Molitor is globally renowned for his precise, mineral-driven Rieslings—distinguished by white, green, and gold capsules indicating dryness levels—as well as his structured, elegant Spätburgunder. This obsessive dedication to terroir has earned the estate numerous perfect 100-point scores, cementing its status as an icon of German winemaking.